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Areas of Emphasis
- General Litigation
- Personal Injury Defense
- Property Damage Defense
- Toxic Tort & Environmental law
- Insurance Defense
- Transportation Law/Trucking Defense
Distinctions
- Judicial and Professional Excellence Award, Mississippi Supreme Court, 1993
- Co-Founder & Vice-President, American Inns of Court, Russell, Blass, Walker Chapter, 1992
- Member, Mississippi Bar Board of Admissions, Committee on Character and Fitness
Education & Honors
- Florida State University, J.D., with honors, 1988
- Editor, Florida State University Law Review
- Editor, Florida State University Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law
- Am Jur Awards, Advanced Land Use, Agricultural Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law
- University of South Carolina, B.A., English, 1983
- Clerkships, Judge Dan Russell, U.S. District Court; Judge Lenore Prather, Mississippi Supreme Court
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Associations
- American Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Trucking Industry Defense Association
- Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
- Editorial Board
- Mississippi Bar
- Georgia Bar Association
- Harrison County Bar Association
- American Inn of Court, Russell, Blass, Walker Chapter
- Association of Attendees & Alumni of Hague Academy of Int'l Law, The Netherlands
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 1993
- Georgia, 1992
- U.S. District Courts
- Mississippi: Northern and Southern Districts
- U.S. Courts of Appeal
- 5th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
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Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- The Medicare Payor Secondary Statute: Litigators Beware, The MDLA Quarterly, Winter (2007).
- Antarctica, The Antarctic Treaty Regime, and Legal and Geopolitical Implications of Natural Resource Exploration and Exploitation, 4 U. of Fla. J. Int'l Law 1 (1989).
- Exclusionary Zoning Laws: Irrationally based Barriers to Normalization of Mentally Retarded Citizens, 3 J. Land Use & Envtl. Law 237 (1987) - (cited as 'Worth Reading' by The National Law Journal).
- Co-Author, Critical Legal Studies: A Dialogue, 21 New England Law Review 291 (1985-1986)
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